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The president of Montenegro, Milo Đukanović, this week threatened members of his own ruling Democratic Party of Socialists not to participate in protest rallies in support of the Orthodox Church in the small Adriatic country, warning of “possible sanctions”, such as expulsion. Heightend protests and opposition continue in Montenegro against a controversial law passed last…

The Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, on Thursday expressed his grave concern over the future prospect of a separation of Church and state in the predominately Eastern Orthodox nation of 11 million residents. His Beatitude spoke after an archieratical Divine Liturgy at the Monastery of the Dormition of the Theotokos, the…

The Archbishop of Warsaw and Metropolitan of All Poland, His Beatitude Sawa, this week blessed a new bell tower at the under-construction St. Sophia Cathedral in Warsaw. His Beatitude also referred to the significance entailed in bell ringing for the Orthodox faith. The cathedral’s foundation stone was laid by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His…

A twin celebration was observed at the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi on Mount Athos this week, officiated by the Metropolitan of Grevena, His Eminence David, on the occasion of the feast day of the Synaxis of the Ever-Holy Theotokos of Paramythia, as well as the feast day of St. Maximus the Greek. Images…

A relevant European Commission service this week acknowledged a problem as described in a written intervention by Cypriot Euro-Deputy Costas Mavrides, who warned of a deliberate abandonment and destruction of mosaics at the chapel of St. Eulalios, in the Turkish-occupied Kyrenia district in northern Cyprus. The Commission replied that its cultural heritage committee has already…

The memory of St. Photios the Great, a 9th Century Patriarch of Constantinople and patron saint of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece’s Holy Synod, was venerated on Thursday at the snow-covered Monastery of the Dormition of the Theotokos, the Virgin Mary, which is located the northern Athens district of Penteli, below Mt. Penteli. An…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, on Thursday referred to the long-standing sacrifices and contributions of the Mother Church of Constantinople, in greeting pupils and teachers from a vocational high school in Grevena, northern Greece. The Ecumenical Patriarch greeted the group in the presence of the Archbishop of Australia, His Eminence…

The Feast of Saint Sava celebrated in San Gabriel Saint Sava of Serbia and all Orthodoxy, as the true “Homo Universalis” (Universal Man), or we can rightfully use the term “The All-Man” (St. Justin of Celije used this term when speaking of Dostojevski), has once again manifested his universality and all-inclusiveness, gathering together in the…